Note 276 — {41} Fifthly, Of Plants.
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Great celandine (Gerard, p. 1069), as the west-country name of kenning-wort—that is, sight-wort—makes manifest; the juice being once thought to be “good to sharpen the sight,”—Chelidonium majus, L. Small celandine (Ranunculus Ficaria, L.) was quite another thing. The former had got to be “common by fences and amongst rubbish” in 1785 (Cutler, l. c.), and is now naturalized in Eastern New England.